| Title |
Melvin Lewis, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 16, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 402 and 403 |
| Alternative Title |
Melvin Lewis, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Lewis, Melvin, 1917-2010 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-07-16 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Pakistan; South Pacific; Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands; Guam; Shasta County, California, United States |
| Subject |
Lewis, Melvin, 1917-2010--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Flight instructors; Army Air Corps |
| Description |
Transcript (77 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Mel Lewis on July 16, 2001. This is from tape numbers 402 and 403 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Mel Lewis (b. 1917) grew up in Redding, California, and operated a private airstrip before enlisting in the Army Air Corps one day after Pearl Harbor. He flew with the 14th Air Force in Pakistan, the 5th A.F. in the South Pacific, and the 7th A.F in Saipan and Guam. He was also a flight instructor in Greenville, South Carolina. 77 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
77 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6bk3bkc |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024582 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3bkc |
| Title |
Page 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024525 |
| OCR Text |
Show MELL WI .J y l , 2001 MEL: And it s ems like a terribl thing but that x ctly th way that it was. And one of the main reasons I left California, because ther wa attitude down there. tnuch f that BBL: Oh, yeah. MEL: But, the way I got through high school was I was a pretty good swimmer, and as a matter of fact, I was the captain of our swimming team. BBL: Oh, really? MEL: And I did pretty good at that because my English teacher was also my swimming coach (laughs). So I managed to get a lot of good grades. I earned them, every bit of it, but as far as the other athletics were concerned, like football and things like that, I didn't do too well in that because I wasn't on the right side of the tracks. BBL: Oh, I see. MEL: And we had a football coach there, and his name was Neil. And as a, matter of fact, he was a P.T. instructor, too, at the same time. And he would get us all out there and line us up like we were in P. T. training and then he'd walk up and down in front of us and chew you out and tell you what a bunch of no-goods you were and how you'd never make this and that and that was his thing. He thought he was Knute Rockne or somebody. BBL: Yeah (laughs). MEL: And he had a habit of ending this little spiel with saying, "Now, if there's any one of you guys that think you're a better man than I am, just step out of line" (laughs). I did. I figured I could take him, and I really wanted to. BBL: Yeah (laughs). 22 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3bkc/1024525 |
